| It lacked the raw, grittiness of the novel and the ending was a complete cop-out. |
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| There are so many possible reasons for refusing your request, in fact, that to many the whole thing may seem like a cop-out. |
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| I certainly don't think of it as a cop-out to excuse oneself from helping others. |
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| This disclaimer isn't a complete cop-out from the brokerage industry. |
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| It sounds too much like a cop-out from the coppers, because the problem is so large that it takes up valuable police resources. |
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| It is the greatest cop-out in the world for airlines to say to passengers that the delay is caused by air traffic. |
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| If the American experience tells us anything, it is that prisons are a cop-out when it comes to preventing crime. |
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| It's a cop-out, of course, to avoid the difficulty of finding a small enough child actor to look two-and-a-bit years old but behave well on stage. |
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| Chicken Caesar salad has become a cop-out main course for dieting Sloanes who leave the croutons, but it shouldn't be. |
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| And another thing, calling a film pretentious is the biggest cop-out. |
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| That kind of explanation on the part of the companies is expectable, but it's a cop-out. |
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| It can become a cop-out, a way of escaping the need to act, to act wisely and vigorously. |
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| I discarded that idea because it seemed too much like a cop-out. |
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| It's becoming increasingly obvious to me that this is a cop-out. |
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| To some this might appear a cop-out or an admission of lack of resources. |
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| For their self-proclaimed heir to use visual trickery may seem a cop-out, or a challenge whose rewards do not make it worth accepting. |
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| It's a book that demands to be read in one sitting, although the identity of the killer will come as a cop-out. |
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| The ending of the story is a bit of a cop-out as the unctuous game show host invokes a hitherto-unknown rule and claims the date with Jennifer for himself. |
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| That may be thought of as a cop-out but the reality is that this debate is much more important than debating the semantics and workings of the House. |
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| My group will not accept this Commission cop-out. |
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| Remember, taking time out is not a cop-out. |
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| Such a view is not only a political cop-out, it is positively dangerous. |
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| This does not sound like a plan, it sounds like a cop-out to me. |
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| Minister, is that answer not a pitiful and cowardly cop-out? |
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| It is a complete cop-out because the testing ban is just going to ensure that EU multinationals will carry out animal testing outside the EU but the products will still be for sale here. |
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| It is a futile, meaningless and hopeless cop-out to blame crime on poverty, or even to consider crime as a long-term result of the apartheid policies. |
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| I think it is a cop-out. I particularly feel that way with the Liberals. |
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| It was a cop-out to say he couldn't sign the petition because he sprained his wrist. |
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| The excuse that the authorities cannot stop it being vandalised is also a cop-out. |
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| All too often, that's a cop-out way for an editor to fill their column space, and it reads like self-serving pablum. |
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| In this world of political correctness, you would think that what a person is called would be their real name, not a co-opted cop-out. |
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| His disappearance on the day of the audition was just a cop-out. |
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| Wilder's cynicism is most evident in his cop-out, boy-gets-girl ending, which seems quite capable of producing an afterstory identical to the film we have just seen. |
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